life lately according to my phone.

                       

  

    

                       

    

phew.

i am literally holding my breath.

the previous arrangement of pictures took me 20 minutes, no lies.

i suppose it's time to unpack my real camera. 

the cell phone pics are only so great, and getting them to format correctly seriously gives me minor anxiety.

not a whole lot new to report around here (is anyone sick of me saying that? cause i'm sick of hearing myself say it).

it has been requested by my momma that i give the blog a lil' update, so here's for you, mom (does anyone else still read this thing anyway?)

(apparently i'm a little liberal with my use of parenthesis. pardon me).

here's a little of what we've been up to:

movies and dates with friends - if you haven't seen avengers yet, do it. you won't regret it.

date night with the brother and sister in law - first and last time we will ever go golfing with the sister in law. we got our butts handed to us. but it was okay because we got dip n' dots afterward, and everyone knows that dip n' dots make everything better. we finished the evening off at the drive inn (where i of course fell asleep) and finally made it home around 2 am. also, never again. i'm pretty sure i'm too old to be out that late anymore.

teaching the little (rowdy) munchkins in primary - we are reminded weekly by many that it's just 'good practice' for what's to come. i must admit sometimes i am fearful for what we have gotten ourselves into. 

schooling- 3 more weeks and i will graduate with my lpn. so looking forward to a break and finally having enought time to unpack and get our house put together.

fishing - lots of our saturday mornings consist of fishing with my favorite boy and my favorite father in law. we're looking forward to more fishing in a few weeks once school is out

grilling - we've been grilling up a storm over here and i can't get enough of it. 

and for a little pregnancy update:

i'm now about 17 weeks along and if you look real close (and i mean real close, pull out those binocs people), you can see the teeniest, tiniest little bump starting to grow.

maybe it's just a figment of my imagination, but the thought of a growing bump gets me excited because honestly at this point i just feel frumpy and like i just porked out on a disgustingly large dinner.

so humor me, please.

while my belly isn't growing so quick, my bosoms are growing at a freakishly alarming rate, which i am not a fan of.

i was perfectly content with my not so well endowed self, and must admit i prefer that over this new feeling that my ladies are going to tip me over flat onto my face at any given moment.

i was excited to start feeling better, but much to my dismay that only lasted about 2 weeks.

we're back to the migraines, nauseous, ralphing my guts out kind of days.

i know that it will be worth it in the end, and i really shouldn't complain because honestly, i have loved being pregnant.

we are scheduled to find out what our little babe is on the 7th of next month (unless of course i can convince j before then that he doesn't want to find out).

we both feel pretty strongly that it is a girl (not that that means anything), and apparrently so does everyone else.

needless to say, we will be pretty shocked next month if we find that our little one has a twig and berries.

in case you were wondering, thinking of baby names is hard. and even harder than that is thinking of baby names that we both agree on.

it took us 2 months to name our dog (literally). i fear for what might happen with naming this babe.

i've been having some strange cravings - bread at one in the morning and brussel sprouts have probably been the strangest. 

we found the cutest swimsuit for a little girl and it was only $6 (score!). i know we don't know what we're having yet, but it was too cute. i seriously couldn't help myself.

also, it should be noted that i felt well enough that i cooked a real dinner and curled my hair for the first time since getting pregnant.

aaaaand that's all for now.

i'll leave you with this little gem that one of my classmates posted on fb.

(i gotta tell ya, nursing school does things to ones sense of humor).

peanut.

we were able to take another peek at our babe a few days ago.

but we couldn't really get a good picture because it was moving all over the place.

it was literally doing somersault after somersault in there.

i may or may not be slightly concerned about the activity level of this kiddo once it is no longer in utero.

my favorite part about the whole thing is watching j's excitement.

it melts my heart.

anyway.

meet our hyperactive little peanut:

a little update.

so if you didn't catch it from our last post, we are having a baby.

edd: 10-31-12.

a little halloween baby.

how's that for timing?

i'm still trying to wrap my head around the whole thing.

and even though it is not ideal with me being in the middle of nursing school, we know that this is the plan that god had in store for us and everything will work out the way it is supposed to.

i would be lying if i said i haven't been terribly sick ever since week 6.

(although the last 2 or 3 days i've finally got some relief - praise the heavens).

whoever came up with the term morning sickness deserves to be hung.

i think what they meant to call it was all day, every day, unrelenting sickness.

and while it's not my favorite thing ever, i am actually grateful for it.

 grateful because at this point, being sick is the only thing that makes me feel pregnant.

and especially grateful because that means little fetus is still alive in there.

we've been in the process of moving for two-ish weeks now.

j and i have come to the conclusion that the only thing worse than having to clean a house before you move, is having to clean your old house and the one you're moving into.

it's been a treat, let me tell ya.

our days consist of waking up at the buttcrack of dawn for work and school.

i come home from school, do homework, and squeeze in a little cleaning.

j gets home anywhere from 6 to 10 (or midnight if we're really lucky).

he works on projects and i work on more homework until we both decide to call it quits.

we go to bed.

rinse.

and repeat the next day.

it's been an exhausting and long process, but things are slowly coming together and we're having fun doing it, which i suppose is what's important.

we even mix things up a bit on occasion.

like the day that i passed out at clinicals and hit my head on the floor, which resulted in a "someone just dropped a bowling ball on the floor" kind of noise (according to everyone there), a rather large goose egg, and a pretty good headache.

and just in case you're wondering, if you are going to pass out, probably don't do it at the hospital.

unless of course you want 20 different doctors and nurses in your face when you finally come to, all trying to throw you into a wheelchair and rush you to the er.

in which case you'll find yourself yelling at everyone that you are fine and no you are not going to the er because you and your husband are still paying bills from your last visit there.

the good news, is that after you sign your life away saying you won't sue the hospital if something bad happens, your husband will get off work and drive an hour to come pick you up because no one will let you drive.

and he'll probably bring your sweet sister in law and her little munchkins and you'll all go to jamba juice and make a party out of it.

and let me tell you, it was a party.

this post has become long winded, when really, all i was trying to get across was that 

we are alive and well, and busy but trying to enjoy every moment.

the end =)

and now some random phone pictures from the last month-ish.

(i fought with the computer for a good 15 minutes trying to get the pictures to line up. obviously i failed.)

         

psssssst.

we've got a little secret over here...

that time.

welp, it's that time again.

farming season is in full swing.

that means family dinner in the tractor and lots of late nights.

and this is what life looks like lately (when i'm not slaving away at school, of course).

i must admit that one of my very favorite things is being snuggled up to that cute boy in a tractor.

afterall, that is where our story re-began.

♥

walk off the earth.

take a second to watch these two videos.

they make me so happy, i can't handle it.

these guys are so talented.

(also, check out their 'someone like you' remake on youtube. much, much better than adele's version).

happy wednesday!

organized mess.

in an attempt to have our new kitchen be more organized (we're moving in a couple of weeks), i made some labels on my silhouette for some of our storage containers.

please ignore the mess in the kitchen. i'm trying to get everything packed before school starts next week.
also, as much as i'd like to say i came up with this on my own - i didn't. the silhouette blog inspired me.

it took me a whole 15 minutes.

and i must admit, i'm pleased as punch with how they turned out.

and if all else fails and they don't help me to be better organized, at least they're cute, right?